Gage.



No. 869,489 PATENTED'OGT. 29. 1907.

V. V.. HAWLEY.

GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13,1907.

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VALOALOW V. HAWLEY, OF AOAMPO, CALIFORNIA.

GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

Application filed March 13. 1907- Serial No. 362210- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vancanow V. IIAWLE Y, a citizen of the United States, residing at Acampo, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gages, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in gages and more particularly those adapted for use upon shingling hatchets or similar tools.

The object of the invention is to provide a gage of this character of simple and inexpensive construction which may be readily applied to and adjusted upon a shingling hatchet and which may be as readily removed from the same to permit of its use as an ordinary hatchet.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features and combinations hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shingling hatchet, with the gage applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the plane indicated by the line 33 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the gage.

The preferred embodiment of my invention which is illustrated in the drawings is in the form of a substantially U-shaped spring clip adapted to take over the edge of and engage suitable seats in the blade of a shingling hatchet or similar tool. The gage is constructed of resilient'metal and has its spring arms 2 united at one end by a rigid cross piece 3 and formed at their opposite ends with transversely projecting heads 4 which serve as stops, as presently explained. The heads 4- are arranged substantially at right angles to the arms 2 and their inner ends are extended beyond said arms to form opposing projections 0r studs 5.

In the drawings, the gage is shown applied to a shingling hatchet 6 having a head 7 at one end and a blade 8 at its other end. This blade has a thickened inner portion 9 in which upon the opposite sides of the blade are formed segmentally arranged series of recesses or depressions 10 adapted to serve as seats for the reception of the projections or studs 5 on the spring arms of the clip. The seats 10 in the opposite faces of the hatchet blade are in transverse alinement and they are all equally distant from a notch or recess 11 formed in a projection 12 upon the inner edge of the blade. The notch 11 is adapted to serve as a pivot seat for the cross piece 3 of the gage so that the latter may swing upon the blade to permit its projections 5 to be engaged with the desired keeper seats 10.

In applying the gage to the hatchet or other shingling tool, its heads 4 are grasped and pulled apart to spring the arms 2 apart sufficiently to enable the thickened portion 9 of the blade 8 to be inserted in the clip. The cross piece or pivot 3 is then engaged with .the pivot seat 11 and the resilient arms 2 are then swung until their projections or studs 5 engage opposing seats 10 in the blade. When in this position it will be noted that the gage will be effectively retained upon the blade and that the heads f will project outwardly in opposite directions to serve as steps. In using the tool, one of the heads or stops 1 is engaged with the butt of a shingle already laid and the butt end of a shingle of the next course is engaged with the end of the hatchet head 7. The distance between the end of the hatchet head 7 and the head or stop determines the length of exposure of the shingle to the weather, and it will be observed that this length of exposure of the shingle may be varied by setting the projections 5 in different ones of the keeper seats 10.

The gage may be readily slipped off of the hatchet blade whereupon the tool may be used as an ordinary hatchet.

I claim:

1. The combination with a shingling tool having a seat, of a shingliug gage having a substantially U-shnped resilient body to take over the edge of said tool and a projoction to engage said seat.

L. The combination with a shingling tool having a seat in one 01 its edges and a seat in one of its side faces, of a shingling gage having a portion to engage the seat in said edge of the tool and a resilient arm carrying a projection to enter the sent in said face of the tool.

2;. The combination with a shiugling tool having a pivot sent and a scgmentnlly arranged series of keeper seats, of a shingling gage pivolally mounted in said pivot seat and adapted to be :uljustably engnged'with said keeper seats.

-i. The combination with a shingling tool having a pivot seat and a segmenlnlly arranged series of keeper seats, of a shingling gage having a resilient member pivotally mounted at one of its ends in said pivot sent and having a projection at its free end to enter said keeper seats.

5. The combination with a shingling tool having a pivot seat and :1 segmentally arranged series of keeper seats, of a substantially Ushaped shingling gage having a pivot cross piece engaged with said pivot seat and a resilient arm adapted to adjustably engage said keeper seats.

H. The combination with a shiugling tool having a pivot seat and n scgmcntully arranged series of keeper seats, of :i substantially Ushaped shingling' gage having a pivot cross piece engaged with said pivot seat, resilient arms arranged upon opposite faces of said tool and transversely extending cross pieces upon the ends of said arms, said cross pieces forming outwardly projecting stop heads and inwardly projecting studs adapted to enter said keeper seats.

T. The combination with a shingling in one of its edges and segmentally arranged series of keeper seats located in opposite faces of the tool and in alinement, of a substantially Ushaped shingling gage having its closed end engaged with the notch in the edge of said tool, and resilient arms terminating in outwardly projecting heads and inwardly projecting studs, the latter being adapted to enter said keeper recesses.

tool having a notch 10 stantially U form and cross pieces arranged upon its arms to provide inwardly extending keeper projections to engage seats in the tool and outwardly extending stops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence 01 two Witnesses.

VALCALOW V. HAWLEY.

Vitnesses C. C. GARNER, B. F. WoonsoN. 

